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Henry78

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-01-23

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SOLVED: How to send ctrl-alt to vmrc under wayland?

I use vmrc to connect to VSphere VMs. vmrc runs under XWayland.

I'd like to send special key combination to the VM, especially <Ctrl><Fn> to switch consoles. But Wayland seems to swallow any key combination with <Ctrl>, so how to achieve this? Sadly vmrc has no virtual keyboard or support to send these key combinations.

I tried <Ctrl><Alt><Space>, release Space and press the desired <Fn> key, but this also fails b/c <Ctrl><Alt><Space> never reaches vmrc.

Last edited by Henry78 (2021-09-28 14:16:33)

Henry78

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-01-23

Posts: 65

Re: SOLVED: How to send ctrl-alt to vmrc under wayland?

Silly me: You can use <Alt><Fn> to switc consoles in my case (debian installer)

Last edited by Henry78 (2021-09-28 20:15:15)

Trilby

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Re: SOLVED: How to send ctrl-alt to vmrc under wayland?

If yo run into similar trouble in the future you'd need to specify your compositor.  "Wayland" doesn't swallow anything - but it is up to the compositor to send key events to client surfaces / windows; most compositors will opt to not send certain key combinations that are bound to compositor actions.

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Henry78

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-01-23

Posts: 65

Re: SOLVED: How to send ctrl-alt to vmrc under wayland?

Ty, in fact i learned this over the last hours. It's also in the Arch Wiki

pqatsi

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Registered: 2024-01-06

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Re: SOLVED: How to send ctrl-alt to vmrc under wayland?

Hello!

I found a way to workarround this issue!

On web client, click inside machine image and hold control+alt. Keeping control+alt pressed, click on Actions, move mouse to guest os, send keys and click on key (eg. f1).

This will send the keystroke to vm!